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"They see that desperation from their parents to be relevant and not square," says the actor.

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His main focus was on the pitch - his desperation to succeed greater than it was all those years ago he said, because he has a reputation to live up to.

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Max Eberl, the club's board member for sport, questioned "whether this was a strategic transfer or an act of desperation".

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And recreate the desperation that carried them to the promised land last fall, as they try to become MLB’s first repeat champion in 25 years.

Farage told the Telegraph, Sir Keir's language "smacks, frankly, of total desperation" after the prime minister referred to Reform as an "enemy" in an interview with the Guardian.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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